White House Opioid Commission Misses Second Deadline

As expected, President Donald Trump's opioid commission has missed the extension deadline it had set to announce interim findings on how the government should deal with drug addiction and overdose deaths in the United States. The commission announced in a Federal Register notice that it has rescheduled a public teleconference about its results—which was supposed to be held today—for July 31st.

This is the second time the president's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis has pushed back its deadline. The commission was originally set to discuss its preliminary findings on June 27th.

Francie Diep is a staff writer at Pacific Standard, where she specializes in health and drug policy and the intersections of culture and science. Previously, she covered science, health, and science policy for Scientific American, Popular Science, and Smithsonian.